{"id":18578,"date":"2021-06-01T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=18578"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T13:54:21","slug":"elbert-elementary-teacher-recognized-as-outstanding-stem-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/elbert-elementary-teacher-recognized-as-outstanding-stem-educator\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Elbert Elementary Teacher Recognized as Outstanding STEM Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Derek-Hall-Air-Force-Award-May-2021-Certificate-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18579\" width=\"191\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Derek-Hall-Air-Force-Award-May-2021-Certificate-edit.jpg 350w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Derek-Hall-Air-Force-Award-May-2021-Certificate-edit-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><figcaption><em> Derek Hall with his Teacher of the Year certificate.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Elbert Elementary\u2019s Derek Hall has been named the Polk\nCounty Teacher of the Year by the Air Force Association (AFA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The honor, presented by the Martin H. Harris chapter of the\nAFA, recognizes outstanding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)\nteachers in Central Florida. The AFA is a nonprofit, independent military and\naerospace education association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AFA\u2019s Teacher of the Year candidates are active STEM\neducators nominated by their principals; winners receive a cash award and are\nrecognized at an annual luncheon. Hall is a fifth-grade science teacher at\nElbert Elementary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. Hall is a really popular teacher with the kids. They\nrelate to him and learn from him, it\u2019s awesome to see it,\u201d said William Dawson,\nthe school\u2019s principal. \u201cHe has a passion for science and makes STEM education\ncome alive. I\u2019m fortunate he\u2019s here teaching science at Elbert Elementary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbert Elementary\u2019s Derek Hall has been named the Polk County Teacher of the Year by the Air Force Association (AFA). The honor, presented by the Martin H. Harris chapter of the AFA, recognizes outstanding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers in Central Florida. The AFA is a nonprofit, independent military and aerospace education association. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18581,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions\/18581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}